A broken sprinkler valve to the Paramount Building on 167 Main St. was the cause of a large water leak in downtown Brattleboro on Feb. 5 that caused a considerable amount of damage to the sidewalk and a traffic island at the intersection of Main and High streets. According to the Brattleboro Department of Public Works, water service and electrical power were turned off for several hours until Utilities Division crews contained the leak. Workers finished the emergency repair around...
In the middle of my village's quarter-mile-long Main Street stands an imitation Catholic church - imitation, in my eyes, because its street-facing colored windows are plastic, and, to me, a secular Jew with a passion for architecture, the word “Catholic” has always meant buildings of impressive stability reaching upward toward a heaven whose light shines through their tributary windows. Narrow-minded and irreverent, perhaps, but I have known many Catholics in the course of my 75 years, and most of them...
View photos and listen to audio stories of “The Gilded Cage: Mexican Migrant Workers on Vermont Dairy Farms,” on display now at the Rockingham Free Public Library until Thursday, Sept. 22. This exhibit is being presented in conjunction with Vermont Reads, a program of Vermont Humanities Council. The 2022 title, The Most Costly Journey (El Viaje Más Caro), tells the stories of 19 migrant workers in their own words. Illustrated by New England cartoonists in a variety of styles, each...
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